* 1980 – Matthew Carey, American actor

* 1980 – Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper

* 1980 – Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish ski racer

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )

* 1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist

* 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress

* 1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer

* 1980 – Monique Ganderton, Canadian actress and stunt-woman

* 1980 – András Horváth, Hungarian footballer

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer, producer, and actor

* 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Texas Battle, American actor

* 1980 – Nuria Cabanillas, Canadian-Spanish gymnast

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

The name alludes to the widespread news coverage of the death of nine week old Azaria Chamberlain in Australia in 1980.

It chronicles the case of Azaria Chamberlain, a nine-week-old baby girl who disappeared from a camp-ground near Uluru ( also known as Ayers Rock ) in August 1980 and the struggle of her parents, Michael and Lindy, to prove their innocence to a public convinced that they were complicit in her death.

Alice Lynne " Lindy " Chamberlain-Creighton ( born 4 March 1948 ) is a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was at the centre of one of Australia's most publicised murder trials in which she was falsely accused and convicted of killing her nine-week old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru ( then known as Ayers Rock ) in 1980.

As the result of a fourth inquest in 2012, an Australian coroner made a ruling that a dingo dog had taken baby Azaria from the campsite in 1980 and had caused her death.

Chamberlain's first daughter, Azaria, was born 11 June 1980, and her second daughter and fourth child, Kahlia, was born in November 1982.

When Azaria was two months old, the family went on a camping trip to Uluru, arriving on 16 August 1980.

On 12 June 2012, an Australian coroner made a final ruling that a dingo dog took baby Azaria Chamberlain from a campsite in 1980 and caused her death.

Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain ( 11 June 1980 17 August 1980 ) was an Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980, on a family camping trip to Uluru ( also known as Ayers Rock ) in the Northern Territory.

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

Chamberlain was subsequently enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, elected into the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team of 1980, and chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History of 1996.

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries ( earning him a nickname of " King of the Miniseries "), including Centennial ( 1978-79 ), Shōgun ( 1980 ), and The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) as Father Ralph de Bricassart with Rachel Ward co-starring.

Between 1980 and 1982 an Australian Lindy Chamberlain had a well publicised murder trial and was convicted of killing her baby, but later released in 1986 on new evidence showing that a dingo had in fact committed the act as was originally claimed by Chamberlain.

She played the role of Nola Reardon Chamberlain from 1980 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 1998.

* The crown versus Chamberlain, 1980 – 1987 / Ken Crispin ( 1987, ISBN 0-86760-088-8 )

The company was founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1980 by imaging pioneer Dr. Savvas Chamberlain, a former Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

* 1980: Richard Chamberlain – Shōgun as John Blackthorne

In the interview conducted by Presley in 1980, her colleague, John Chamberlain stated that she was a libertarian, not a conservative.